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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Working and saving, applying to grad school, counting down the days to my next trip
PHILOSOPHY
If this isn't nice, what is?
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Maybe have a couch, definitely willing to show people around or make recommendations.
Interests
Beyond travel and road trips.. knitting, board games, thrift stores, used bookstores, handwriting, people watching, creative writing, old school Nintendo, lingering over coffee or brunch
- writing
- coffee
- thrifting
- board games
- traveling
- knitting
- road trips
Music, Movies, and Books
Favorite bads/musicians: Fugazi, Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Minor Threat, The Breeders, Wire, The Minutemen, Sleater Kinney
Favorite Movies:
Annie Hall, Before Sunset/Sunrise, Rushmore, The Shining, This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Grindhouse
Favorite Books:
Lolita, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Matilda, 1984, The Road, Invisible Cities, The Omnivore's Dilemma, all Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
My trip to Peru and Bolivia changed me in a way that I never could have anticipated. There were strikes in Puno that made a mess of our travel plans and required that we take a roundabout and not often traveled route from Cusco to that city. A seven hour bus ride (I think?) became a 10-11 hour one in the middle of the night. It was cold and our van wasn't heated. Much of the trip was along unpaved roads through scarcely populated, remote villages in the highlands. I was uncomfortable and tired and couldn't sleep, but I wasn't unhappy. I remember being amazed at where I was, what I was doing, what I was seeing. I felt lucky. Traveling was always important, but that moment and this trip filled me with a greater sense of wanderlust than I ever before experienced.
Countries I’ve Visited
Bolivia, Canada, France, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru
Countries I’ve Lived In
United States